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Funkasaurus Rex
Mods can move this to the pedal forum if need be but I wanted to make sure that people like Howie saw this.
Build and Design: All metal (I hate plastic cases) and the switches are strong enough to not break under crazy stomping but are smooth enough to use barefoot. Knobs are large and easy to read while standing over it with a mic stand. I like the location of the loop level (you can adjust it with the edge of your foot along the side of the pedal) but there is a jack for an expression pedal that can be assigned to any of the controls
Function: This basically covers every delay type that you normally need (slapback, tape, long echo, reverse, ping pong, analog, modulated) and several others that I never even knew I needed. My favorite is the "dynamic" which ducks the volume down while you're playing but then brings the repeats up when your playing stops. It works great, applies the effect without making it sound messy and never sounds cheap or "digital". Once you dial in a setting you like, hold down A, B, or C and it stores it in that slot. Change the settings and store another combination. Three per delay type all the way around.
I love that you can start using it without reading the manual. No crazy menus to scroll through with little fucking LED displays for patch numbers. Just button A, B, and C for each delay sound and the TAP TEMPO button. What's cool is on each delay type ANY of knob settings from mild to wild can be configured and then stored in the A,B,C buttons. (Yes Howie... A could be no modulation, B could be subtle modulation with longer repeats, and C could be a completely different combination of low repeats, louder volume, and crazy modulation.... whatever you want) I'm loving that I can set delays that sound great for my Clean sound, Dirty Sound, and for Solos and toggle seamlessly between them. And of course the Tap can be used on the fly. There's also a time/subdivide switch if you need to set the tap to do faster note combinations or tremolo type sounds.
The Looper: This looper is perfect for practicing and for those one or two songs a night where you need to keep a riff going to solo over. Record with button A, then button B kicks the loop off again while stopping recording. A again will allow overdubbing and layering. The C button will run through the loop one more time and then stop. Great for song endings or killing the loop at the end of the solo without you touching it, so you can have your foot ready to change solo tone to rhythm. The D button acts as an UNDO or hold it to clear the loop altogether. Also whatever delay settings you turn the other knobs to work along with the looper. It's not an and/or proposition.
There are other things you can do with it (Toneprint slots, USB, expression pedal, MIDI) but it doesn't feel like one of those gawdawful multi-effects pedals with the little tweaky knobs and buttons. It feels like a classic knob-based pedal you throw on your board and run with.
Build and Design: All metal (I hate plastic cases) and the switches are strong enough to not break under crazy stomping but are smooth enough to use barefoot. Knobs are large and easy to read while standing over it with a mic stand. I like the location of the loop level (you can adjust it with the edge of your foot along the side of the pedal) but there is a jack for an expression pedal that can be assigned to any of the controls
Function: This basically covers every delay type that you normally need (slapback, tape, long echo, reverse, ping pong, analog, modulated) and several others that I never even knew I needed. My favorite is the "dynamic" which ducks the volume down while you're playing but then brings the repeats up when your playing stops. It works great, applies the effect without making it sound messy and never sounds cheap or "digital". Once you dial in a setting you like, hold down A, B, or C and it stores it in that slot. Change the settings and store another combination. Three per delay type all the way around.
I love that you can start using it without reading the manual. No crazy menus to scroll through with little fucking LED displays for patch numbers. Just button A, B, and C for each delay sound and the TAP TEMPO button. What's cool is on each delay type ANY of knob settings from mild to wild can be configured and then stored in the A,B,C buttons. (Yes Howie... A could be no modulation, B could be subtle modulation with longer repeats, and C could be a completely different combination of low repeats, louder volume, and crazy modulation.... whatever you want) I'm loving that I can set delays that sound great for my Clean sound, Dirty Sound, and for Solos and toggle seamlessly between them. And of course the Tap can be used on the fly. There's also a time/subdivide switch if you need to set the tap to do faster note combinations or tremolo type sounds.
The Looper: This looper is perfect for practicing and for those one or two songs a night where you need to keep a riff going to solo over. Record with button A, then button B kicks the loop off again while stopping recording. A again will allow overdubbing and layering. The C button will run through the loop one more time and then stop. Great for song endings or killing the loop at the end of the solo without you touching it, so you can have your foot ready to change solo tone to rhythm. The D button acts as an UNDO or hold it to clear the loop altogether. Also whatever delay settings you turn the other knobs to work along with the looper. It's not an and/or proposition.
There are other things you can do with it (Toneprint slots, USB, expression pedal, MIDI) but it doesn't feel like one of those gawdawful multi-effects pedals with the little tweaky knobs and buttons. It feels like a classic knob-based pedal you throw on your board and run with.
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